Plaintiff Says ‘Help’ Humiliated Her
Kathryn Stockett, author of the bestselling book The Help, is being sued by a former babysitter for her family for invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Ablene…
Do Not Track Bill May Curb Some Unwanted Spying on Internet Activity
A bill has been introduced to Congress that would give consumers a right to block certain companies from tracking consumer Internet activities, and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman is predicting…
Plaintiffs Suing ‘Girls Gone Wild’ Creator Get Second Shot to Proceed Anonymously
Recently, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has ruled that plaintiffs suing the producers of the “Girls Gone Wild” videos for filming them engaging in sexually explicit…
PRG Privacy Comments
Professor Ira Rubinstein's comments to the FTC: Comments Professor Helen Nissenbaum's comments: NissenbaumIPTFComments
Data Protection @ CSLS University of Oxford
At a recent conference on information ethics, organized by the Uehiro Center at Oxford University, I met David Erdos, who presented work on challenges confronting the EU approach to data…
Washington Post on Domestic Spying
A in-depth report Monday in the Washington Post describes the expanding apparatus of US domestic intelligence since the September 11th Terrorist Attacks, including fusion centers, the new Suspicious Activity Reporting…
Commerce Department Report
On December 16, 2010, the U.S. Commerce Department released its report, Policy Framework for Protecting Consumer Privacy Online While Supporting Innovation. It will be interesting to compare and contrast.
FTC Staff Issues Privacy Report
From the FTC: "The Federal Trade Commission, the nation’s chief privacy policy and enforcement agency for 40 years, issued a preliminary staff report today that proposes a framework to balance…
Ultimate Privacy: How to Disappear, Erase Digital Footprints & Vanish Without a Trace
Interesting Network World article posted in mid September: "As privacy seems harder to hold onto in this digital age, privacy expert Frank Ahearn can help you legally poof and fall…
Flight attendants union upset over new pat-down procedures
From a Phoenix local ABC station, widespread complaints over increasingly invasive manual inspections that follow the decision to opt out of body scanning.